“Trump the Peacemaker?” by Shlomo Ben-Ami, member of our Think Tank.

Shlomo Ben-Ami, Vice-president of the Toledo International Center for Peace and member of our Think Tank, has recently published the piece Trump the Peacemaker? on the Project syndicate’s blog.

“A half-century ago, Israel won the Six-Day War against its Arab neighbors, occupying territories from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank – and establishing its rule over millions of Palestinians. In the ensuing decades, Palestinians tried virtually everything to escape Israel’s repressive occupation – from civil resistance to armed conflict to international diplomacy – to no avail. Now they will try something new: negotiating with US President Donald Trump.

Every American president since 1967 has sought to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict, with Bill Clinton offering the most thorough and judicious parameters for a peace settlement ever conceived by any foreign statesman. Yet Trump confidently asserts that he will “get done” an agreement, which he believes isn’t “as difficult as people have thought.””